The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-14
Republican Issues.

The indications are increasing that it is
the purpose of the Republican leaders to
conduct tho next Presidential campaign, so
far as they are concernei on sectional,
issues. Mr.. Sherman in his recent speech at
Springfield, H., outlined the Republican
policy, and Mr.. William q. Chandler in his
speech to the caucus at Concord, N. H.,
after he had been nominated for United
States Senator, expressed about the same
views as those contained in Mr.. Sherman's
speech. Mr.. Chandler said that it was the
duty of the Republican party to maintain
the difference between freedom and
slavery, loyalty and treason, the Union
army and the Confederate army
MIR. Sherman, Mr.. Chandler and others
who think as they do, see no chance of gain
ing foothold in the South. They believe
that their only hope of success in 1885 is in
trying to strengthen the Republican party
at the North by arousing sectional feeling.
1t may be expected, therefore, that in the
next national campaign the same old stories
OF political outrages at the South will be re-
told and enlarged upon 1t may be that
efforts will be made to stir up strife in some
localities in the South in order to get mate
rial for new outrage stories.
In his Concord speech Mr.. Chandler al
luded to the alleged Texas outrage which
the Senate investigated last winter, and
which was found to have been nothing more
than local squabble, inaugurated by lot
of politicians that would be a disgrace to
any community. Even the Republican
members of the Senate Committee which
conducted the investigation were disap-
pointed in not discovering a political out
rage that could be used advantageously by
their party. Mr.. Chandler, however, is
ready to ignore the truth and assert that
the Texas affair was an attack by Demo-
Gratis upon the freedom of the ballot, and
that such attacks are common all over the
South
When the campaign fairly opens the peo-
pie of the North will be told that the South
is disloyal; that the negro is not permitted
to vote in any of the Southern States; that
ex-Confederates have captured Congress;
that they are shaping legislation and are
being appointed to all the best offices. 1t
will be strange indeed if statements like
these find much favor with the Northern
pCOEiV' AucIe may De lew eXUreHllSIS
who win believe them because they
want to, but the masses of
the people, who watch current events and
think for themselves, will hardly accept
them. They will want something more than
mere assertions to convince them that the
South is not as loyal and law-abiding as the
North, and that the ballot is not as free and
the count as fair in this section as in any
other of the country, Indeed, in view of
the enormous ballot-box frauds in Cincin-
natl and Chicago it is safe to assert that
greater care is taken to preserve the purity
of the ballot-box at the South than at the
North. 1t is true that ex-Confeder-
ates have been appointed to
office, but there is neither a written
nor an unwritten law against that.
The Republicans were glad to appoint those
of them to office who joined their party.
Very few of them, however, cared to join
that party. Sherman himself was instru-
mental inhaving one of them appointed
Postmaster General in Hayes administra-
ton. The people of the North are not blind
to the truth, and if the Republican party
depends upon ''bloody shirt" issues it will
suffer a much more severe defeat in 1888
than it did in 1884